Sentence examples for disaster aversion from inspiring English sources
In another instance of disaster aversion, Ken Olsen, who founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, saved the Whirlwind computer, a ground-breaking machine built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed in 1951, by keeping a truck from hauling the machine to a landfill.
The major disaster-aversion strategies envisaged for the future were intensified hay-making and hay-stocking (n = 24) and improvement of the animals' winter pen and surrounding fence (n = 19).
Even preventable disasters, however, get short shrift because of our aversion to long-term planning and commitment, said Russell Schweickart, the former Apollo astronaut.
Yoo said that pursuing guys like him would lead to dangerous "risk aversion," which sounds like a bailed-out financial institution explaining, after a disaster with derivatives, that new regulations would dampen the free market.
And due to risk aversion, we have not seen many businesses getting involved in humanitarian emergencies caused by conflict, despite contributing in massive ways after natural disasters such as typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in November.
Yet their aversion came as no surprise.
September 11th presumably reduced casualty aversion even further.
Technically speaking, we experience "advantageous-inequity aversion".
First, his personal aversion to reform.
That aversion has clearly been overcome.
